{"id":6019,"date":"2025-04-25T20:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T20:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/?p=6019"},"modified":"2025-04-25T20:46:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T20:46:35","slug":"some-of-francos-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/2025\/04\/25\/some-of-francos-achievements\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of Franco’s achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Unemployment in 1975: 3.78%, 510,500 unemployed (26% unemployment today). Spain is currently in the top 6 worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Spain became the second-largest power in the services sector (tourism).
\n3. A predominantly agricultural country became the ninth-largest industrial power<\/strong>\u00a0in the world (according to the UN).
\n4. Industry represented 36% of GDP in 1975.<\/strong>\u00a0It currently accounts for less than 12.8%.
\n5. Spain created the Basic Law of Social Security.
\n6. Spain introduced the Christmas bonus.
\n7. Spain introduced the July 18th bonus.
\n8. Spain introduced one month or 30 calendar days of paid vacation per year.
\n9. Free return on urban public transport, with tickets sold until 9:00 a.m.
\n10. Three levels of aid for large families, depending on the number of children. Today, there are hardly any aids to encourage births.
\n11. A small monthly cash increase in salaries for each child of each worker (known as \u00abPoints\u00bb). 12.
\nAll private property was unseizable<\/strong>\u00a0(Art. 32 of the Spanish Charter).
\n13. Construction of more than 9,000,000 social housing units.<\/strong>
\n14. Prohibition of interrupting the supply of water, electricity, or coal to homes for nonpayment.
\n15. 21 labor universities and numerous labor schools.
\n16. 515 reservoirs throughout Spain.
\n17. Salaries were practically exempt from withholdings and taxes.<\/strong>
\n18. The current 21% VAT did not exist or was not payable. Only the Business Traffic Tax existed: a mere 2%.<\/strong>
\n19. Franco created, for the first time in history,\u00a0the Spanish middle class, with the subsequent achievements of order and social justice: 86% of the population in\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>1975 (43% in 2008).<\/strong>
\n20. It was with Franco, neither before nor after, that hunger and illiteracy practically ended in Spain.
\n21. For the first time, the homes of Spaniards were inviolable. No one could enter them without their consent or a court order.
\n22.\u00a0700,000 public officials<\/strong>\u00a0(more than 3,000,000 today).
\n23. He implemented the Agrarian Reform, which transformed the countryside, ending local caciquismo (which imposed the purchase prices for grapes, grain, etc.).
\n24. The provision of social housing was rigorously selective, with low prices, and based on circumstances and number of children.
\n25. In addition to the absence or payment of VAT, there was no Personal Income Tax Return. There were hardly any taxes paid (estimated:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>3% on average compared to today, or 33 times less taxes).<\/strong>
\n26. He created cooperatives that protected producers and purchased at very competitive prices.
\n27. The productive economy was heavily protected and isolated from the financial market.
\n28. He developed Social Security (almost nonexistent in the Republic) and labor security to a practically current level.<\/strong>
\n29. Relentless pursuit of all forms of usury<\/strong>\u00a0(Chapter IX\u20143rd Labor Law).
\n30. He created the Savings Bank Law of the Franco regime, created to combat usury.
\n31. The opening of small businesses or shops required hardly any legal requirements beyond safety and hygiene.
\n32. A single national law and regulation streamlined and energized the inter-territorial productive economy.
\n33. Provincial councils coordinated political relations between the state and municipalities, supplanting the regional governments at negligible cost.
\n34. State austerity and strict law enforcement reduced corruption levels to negligible levels.
\n35. Construction of six major national highways (later converted into dual carriageways).
\n36. Extremely low crime rates. Millions of homes, churches, and other establishments never used keys in their doors.<\/strong>
\n37. Within the vertical union, the communist-oriented CC.OO (City of Workers’ Party) was formed, which later split off.
\n38. He created the Social Institute of the Navy to help fishermen.
\n39. Even during the war, he enacted a Law on Workplace Accidents, as well as regulations exempting the unemployed from paying rent, drinking water, and electricity.
\n40. He founded the National Organization of the Blind of Spain (ONCE), an organization that today is a fundamental economic and social pillar for the physically disabled.
\n41. The prison population in 1975 was 8,440. The current prison population is 55,000.
\n42. He created the now prestigious Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) to revitalize scientific research in the country.
\n43. In 1975, Spain had one of the lowest public debt levels in the world:\u00a012.8% of GDP (currently 97%).<\/strong>
\n44. The public deficit was barely 0.4% in 1975 (currently 5%).
\n45. The public debt was controlled at 9% of GDP (currently 98%).<\/strong>
\n46. \u200b\u200bHe introduced \u00abPhilosophy\u00bb as an independent subject in secondary school; today he wants to eliminate it, lest people ask too many questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Unemployment in 1975: 3.78%, 510,500 unemployed (26% unemployment today). Spain is currently in the top 6 worldwide. 2. Spain became the second-largest power in the services sector (tourism). 3. A predominantly agricultural country became the ninth-largest industrial power\u00a0in the world (according to the UN). 4. Industry represented 36% of GDP in 1975.\u00a0It currently accounts … Sigue leyendo Some of Franco’s achievements<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6021,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019\/revisions\/6021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}